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In August, the Government of Nunavut Department of Culture, Language, Elders and Youth (CLEY) overruled its previous refusal and now approved the original funding proposal for NITV on IsumaTV 3.0, NITV's 2011-12 proposal to expand the network of IsumaTV High-speed MediaPlayers to a total of 8 Baffin Island communities: Igloolik, Pangnirtuq and Iqaluit, started in 2010-11, and add

"The estimate came in a presentation on Wednesday before the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission in Timmins, Ont., as the federal regulator investigates how to close the digital gap between urban and rural areas." Globe&Mail ht

Transcript of the original speech. Complete PDF presentation available to download at the bottom of this text under attached files.WATCH Mary Simon’s speech at IsumaTV-----------------------------------------------------------

Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, speaking at the Arctic Indigenous
Languages Symposium in Tromso, Norway, October 20, 2008, announced the
creation of the Inuit Language and Culture Institute on IsumaTV, a five
year $25 million commitment to install high-speed broadband and public
access production studios in every participating Inuit community.